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infrastructure and hadoop

Despite the idea that a server is a server, the needs of different computing customers differ widely. For those thinking about selling infrastructure, software or even services understanding the difference in… Read more »

If you don’t like disruption, you won’t like Amazon, and you especially won’t like its cloud computing business, Amazon Web Services (AWS), which disrupts just about every corner of the IT… Read more »

Connectivity changes everything. That’s the credo driving just about every corner of our day-to-day lives. As human beings, we are now connected to one another through not just our social networks… Read more »

Last quarter we highlighted the fast maturation of the Platform-as-a-Service and big data spaces. Those two trends only picked up speed during the third quarter of 2011. Joining them on the… Read more »

Like most people, I suspect, I wasn’t too surprised to find out that Hadoop-focused startup Karmasphere has secured a $5 million initial funding round. If Hadoop catches on like the evidence… Read more »

Earlier this week, GigaOM’s Sebastian Rupley detailed Cloudera’s plans to move beyond open-source software and services into the world of proprietary software. It might seem a bit early for the startup… Read more »